Furthermore, prosecutors are reported to have claimed that Davis’s laptop was found to contain the fake article announcing Rupert Murdoch’s death that visitors to The Sun’s hacked website saw for a period of time earlier this month.

Jake Davis has been given bail until August 30th, on the condition that he wears an electronic tag and does not access the internet.

The teenager who wore dark sunglasses and a blue denim shirt, and only spoke in court to confirm his name and address, was surrounded by a scrum of media photographers after the hearing.

Encrypted hard drive doesn't matter. If a warrant is served, one must hand over the encryption keys otherwise one is obstructing justice.

Can't recall the exact details, but there was a case in England some time ago where a guy did time because he refused to hand over the keys to a encrypted disk. At the end of the stretch, he still had to hand them over.